[TowerTalk] Fw: pull lubricant

[K8RI on TT]

On 7/20/2011 8:47 PM, Sam Andrews wrote:
> Yes, magic stuff.  It is soap based.  The brand Ideal is most popular with
> electricians.
>
> The downside is that after several years, it becomes gooey and makes
> removing the conductors more difficult.

It may be the difference in brand, or a phase it goes through while 
drying out, but I've never seen the pull lube or soap get gooey.  It 
eventually dries out to form a cake like substance that is easily broken 
into a slippery powder. Not as slippery as the initial "snot in a can", 
but still slippery.  I base that on 26 years working in industry as well 
as my own use in my conduit runs.  I didn't do much cable pulling the 7 
years after college and before retirement.<:-))

73

Roger (K8RI)


>
> 73, Sam  AE5L
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Jordan"<wa3gin at comcast.net>
> To:<TOWERTALK at contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 7:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] pull lubricant
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>> Still talking about this one... just pulled two 1/2" LDF4, 1/2" rotor
>> cable,
>> multi-mode fiber through 150ft of 4" conduit. A half a quart of lub made
>> it
>> a one man job that took ten minutes.  I used sweeps on the ends but
>> unfortunately had to use a 45 at two different places, so the conduit was
>> zig-zagged and still the pull was easy.  I'm sold on this stuff and an
>> easy
>> clean-up when done.
>>
>> 73,
>> Dave
>> wa3gin
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>> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 8:23 PM
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] pull lubricant
>>
>>
>>> Once I pulled 1/2 hardline ...
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